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Adaptations in the Sound Era - 1927-37 (Paperback)
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Adaptations in the Sound Era - 1927-37 (Paperback)
Series: Bloomsbury Adaptation Histories
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There is no disputing that the coming of sound heralded a new era
for adaptations. We take it for granted today that a film is
enhanced by sound but it was not a view unanimously held in the
early period of sound cinema. While there was a substantial degree
of skepticism in the late 1920s and early 30s about the advantages
of sound, what we would call technophobia today, the inclusion of
speech in screen versions of literary and theatrical works,
undeniably revised what it was to be an adaptation: words. Focusing
on the promotional materials for "Adaptations in the Sound Era"
Deborah Cartmell tracks early attempts to promote sound and the
elevation of words in adaptations in the early sound period. The
popular appeal of these films clearly stands in opposition to
academic regard for them and the book accurately reflects on the
presence and marketing of 'words' in a variety of adaptations from
the introduction of sound to the mid 1930s. This book
contextualizes a range of adaptations in relation to debates about
'picturizations' of books in the early sound era, including the
reactions to the talking adaptation by writers such as F.R. Leavis,
Irwin Panofsky, Aldous Huxley and Graham Greene. Film adaptations
of Shakespeare, Dickens, gothic fiction and biopics are also
discussed in relation to their use and promotion of sound or, more
precisely, words.
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